I have recently been involved in a project that requires the customer to use Device Manager to control their HDS Environment. 2 X VSPs and 2 x AMS.

The AMS are external Tier 2 storage for the VSP (1 each).

The customer has been told not to use Storage Navigator as it doesn't fit with their management system and reporting.

This lead me to try configuring hte VSP from DEvice manager and found there are tings I could not do,one of these for instance is disciver new external LUNs form the AMS.

could anyone let me know if this should be possible or if there are certain low level configurations that DEvice manager is not able to do.

Many thanksAndy

You have raised a rather interesting point. I have seen external systems in HDvM but I never configured them using HDvM. I somehow doubt that it can be done for one main reason. External systems don't have to be HDS storage. I have virtualised EMC, LSI, Sun and IBM storage arrays and none of those can be (even though HDS supposedly supports CIMOM) managed in HDvM. So working on that theory, I think your client will probably be forced to use Storage Navigator to discover the external systems. I could be wrong. I personally don't see how anyone's management and reporting systems can integrate with HDvM unless they are great at using the CLI which is a skill picked up over years of frustration. HiRDB is still proprietary as far as I know.

You raise an interesting point, but to be honest I am not worries about configuring hte external storage, I just want to find LUNs mapped to external ports, virtualise them and then add htem to the DP pool etc.

You raise an interesting point, but to be honest I am not worries about configuring hte external storage, I just want to find LUNs mapped to external ports, virtualise them and then add htem to the DP pool etc.

ThanksAndy

I had a number of Clariion CX-380s with mixtures of SATA and FC drives behind a USP-V and after the discovery process and then shoving them into DP pools, anything could be done in HDvM. Each class of drive was put into its own Pool. Most external storage is pretty stagnant after it is presented. I believed that HDS preferred the SAN admin to use HDvM for new LUN provision from the Pools because it prevented some people from doing rather obscure things because Pools and LUSE should never be mixed.